Sentences with phrase «emphasis on academic standards»

With the heavy emphasis on academic standards, teachers don't usually have time to focus on a student's emotional state or family situation.

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He is a past trustee of ACSM and currently a member of the Medical Advisory Committee for Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. that provides youth football and cheer and dance programs with an emphasis on maintaining academic standards.

Catholic high schools soon «returned to conventional class - period organization, heightened academic standards and a renewed emphasis on a core of academic subjects.»

Particularly in an age of increasingly difficult academic standards and emphasis on test scores, taking on moderate to severe special needs kids could be like marrying someone with emotional «baggage.»

Even if educators manage to skate past the dizzying array of standards and value - added evaluations, they must still contend with this fundamental divide: academic rigor, with its unflinching emphasis on measurable success, seems strangely at odds with emotional intelligence, a soufflé of moods and feelings.

U.S. Vice President George Bush: «We should demand more from students — higher academic standards, with more emphasis on core courses like English, math, science, and history — and more homework.

After congratulating the nation for working to amass current successes — including financial aid options that have «finally opened the doors of college to all Americans,» state - developed academic standards, the creation of a voluntary national test, technology in the schools, and an emphasis on class - size reduction — Clinton outlined his proposal to drive public education into the 21st century.

In addition to providing rich detail to support his main conclusion — that the so - called «excellence movement,» with its emphasis on increased academic standards, has failed to improve the schools — the book urges a larger agenda to carry the «struggle to reform» through the 1990's.

It covers the influence the common - core academic standards are likely to have on building the online curricula of the future, the growing emphasis on teaching social skills to virtual school students, how schools are building courses that blend face - to - face and online learning, and the evolving role of e-assessments.

In this webinar, we will discuss four of the most challenging shifts, including: • Emphasis on Academic Vocabulary • Complex Text • Close Reading • Greater Emphasis on Informational Text Participants will learn what these shifts really mean; how the various ELA standards connect to support them; and practical applications for addressing the shifts in the classroom.

Beth Smith, president of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, talks about how the «the Common Core math and English standards place more emphasis on integration and application of skills learned in one class...

What gets in the way in part, Becker laments, is Minnesota's extensive number of academic standards, a heavy emphasis on standardized tests as a single measure of success, and an exhausting number of state mandates.

Opponents question the emphasis on raising academic standards, independently assessing students against those high standards, and holding educators responsible for the results.

· We should adopt teacher certification standards that place increasingly more emphasis on academic content, particularly in grades 5 - 12, and verbal and cognitive skills, particularly in grades PreK - 4.

We focus on conveying Country Day's high academic standards and rigorous program offerings, including Harkness Learning, public speaking, and the emphasis on writing and self - advocacy skills, which give our students the best possible preparation for secondary school and college.